i feel it's a reception for chancellor angela merkel during her visit to graze with tens of thousands of protesters pointing to the source of their economic misery. we're bringing you live pictures now from moscow city course they pursue riots are people getting under way as more specific or to the punk band the receipt to get is in jail for publicity stunt and russia's main cathedral like pictures or. an israeli prime minister netanyahu appears to go all out for reelection as he dissolved parliament and orders a slap at the peak of these popularity citing budget bickering.

this is r.t. coming to you live from moscow hello and welcome to the program arises and far from warm welcome from the greek people for chancellor angela merkel on her visit to africans while the german leader praised the government over its austerity measures an army of riot police held by turns of thousands of demonstrators just streets away oh she's south us now reports from athens on why merkel's visit has so riled the people. it was supposed to be a conciliatory gesture but in the end it seem do you need to serve to add fuel to the fire of austerity anger clashes of breaking out between the riot police on the protesters on the streets that are going on. getting the country it was supposed

to demonstrate solidarity but all it serve to do if i like the divisions there remain in the country itself between the people and the politicians and between the eurozone countries as well the bad blood between greece and germany runs deep greece largely blames germany for the tough measures they faced this in them caught in a devastating economic spiral and they germany's rhetoric may have softened recently greeks have knives a given will forgotten their portrayal of the start of the euro crisis the bad ones of the bunch. very. good government. to the people suffering cards. for working people if a large chunks of the greek population looking increasingly isolated from the political class this far from alone from greece to spain to italy staring

to his pull year isn't economies to their knees and with unemployment particularly amongst year is used now reaching epic heights people have simply had enough if this looks like a familiar sight because that is when we thing many times before in recent years. with standoff between the riot they. along the streets and people standing around confused this is the result of years of austerity this is what of thirty means every old population that is being pushed to its breaking point you can see all of the side streets of these pants standoffs happening perhaps this will be the wake up call to eurozone leaders as the crisis drags on and the protests have grown larger and more frequent where there were once. ease the pain of the cuts now many

people simply want out altogether you have to leave the eurozone have to have to break with. generally we have to break with a system that puts profit before people have to break with companies to be important think is that there's so much resistance it's not only the bargain of the people but it's the very system so it's has been three years of austerity about three years of general strikes in the capacious and gives hope and we're going to go like that sarah for. athens and. a sociology lecture from the university how they each. not even medical support will give a shake the grey government or that much the better. we are in the fifth year of recession we're in the third year or was there at the measures they are asking out or even how there are stare at them as a person this a thirteen billion cuts mainly in what concerns wages and pensions so people were really really angry and i think that there's also

a lot of anger against mrs merkel who is being seen as our representative all of us said some form of the konami a gratian against greece or this protest and think no one thought that ok mrs merkel comes here and so things are going to be better and i think that situation is not very stable despite all this attempt even by mrs merkel to so some sort of support to mr prime minister some of us in reality the greek government is not so stable since it is sitting on top of a huge social crisis a huge social crisis can easily turn into a political crisis. moscow city court has started hearing an appeal by they pursue ride punk band sentenced to

two years in jail for performance in the country's main cathedral both their supporters and opponents have gathered near the called the band's cage has grown into an international media circus with celebrities and human rights activists worldwide demanding their release by the lawyers seem in no hurry to get them freed while there's fame and profit to be harmed from their scandalous brand boycott of. it was just such a pussy riot feminist punk rockers registered trademark a brand new global one major russian concert organizer says they've been flooded with calls from foreign promoters offering to organize a pussy riot world tour that could fetch up to six hundred million euros. it was the last there's a red square behind me that post the riots stormed the area and performed an offensive song about florida may have been

a warm up gig of sorts but that particular stunt didn't bring the punk rockers the big break that they were after internet all attention on the internet and more importantly failed to rouse the interest of the off dorothy's just weeks later kirsty riot took their protest start to moscow's central part of. the stunt video went viral pussy riot were arrested their trial a worldwide media circus western and russian celebrities called for the women's release. international branded them prisoners of conscience and free pussy riot t. shirts sold out the pushing it was quite normal that's the way you attract attention there was a look that famous pop stars around the world look at the way but i was dressed look at that look at all the other. we can do as well is that all we could do something different and they hated the idea of going into the cathedral and seeing

the blessing of songs because that. would in fact be something reduce during the trial some was struck by the women's defense team's tactics so there is no defense in this case it's simple. uncorking out on ali see they're working towards the brand in order to capitalize on it in the future and it's worked i thing. two years in prison for the crime they committed is too harsh but at the same time i can see that their lawyers did everything in order to get them those two years in prison is the band's appeal against the sentences was postponed in a moscow court last week one band member to rina so much seven unexpectedly announced she now wants different lawyers from have fellow band members a trial observer believes it signals a rift among the punk rock collective prosecutors say the dissenting band member is merely a ploy to add hype to a story that's not generating the headlines it did with the concept requests

pouring in there are those that say that pussy riot court appeal is just like the trial that preceded it the point here isn't to reduce the women sentences but rather it's about increasing the number of critics headlines and the saleability of the now protected pussy riot brand polly boyko r t moscow. and we've been tracking their pretty rise case throughout and you can find more net dot com and here are some other stories also waiting to hear that a mushroom cloud in central russia the explosion of out of four thousand tons of ammunition triggers the evacuation of ted turner. and also that deadly microbe alert in pakistan's largest city after an outbreak of brain disease with a ninety eight percent mortality rate that and more at out here on.

israelis are to head to the polls some eight months earlier than expected as prime minister binyamin netanyahu disbanded the parliament and announced a snap election and said the coalition's failure to nail down the budget is behind the rush the polls are expected to be held at the end of january or beginning of february which gives less time for netanyahu as potential rivals to strengthen their platforms the move also comes just ahead of the us presidential election the outcome of which according to some middle east experts will have a major impact on israel's politics. is taking advantage of situation in the budget is only. the to pass a budget is difficult but he could have done it but this is the best time for his point of view because the coalition today in israel is in shambles so he catches actually a moment in which from his point of view within three months he will enter and he

can make a huge victorious i think these here another element the element of obama. has actually linked himself almost totally to much involvement in the american elections in favor of only we told news an old friend of mine tell me how they're holding similar conservative positions and all in all his relations with obama are very sour i believe that if obama will be elected this will become also issue in the elections and i will not meet a possibility in wish obama in direct we would also try to influence the elections in this world. the straight. smoke one cigarette in his life had no problem with. products to. bring. him to the gulf states.

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almost every single part of the rain to help them survive. the deer is a means of transportation. equipment. but life in the tundra is harsh and so before winter hits many of the children are helicoptered to the center of the district for boarding school. students learn different languages utilize modern technologies through specialized grant programs and even learn arts skills all within a protected. the school was founded and named for an tom petty atika scientist who wanted a better way of life for his people but even with the most progressive ideas and education many minutes say they don't want to trade the modern life for their beloved. i have returned to the tundra and i actually like it here if you're

outside there's fresh air fresh water looks at the site you can see here it's a joyful sight. a sentiment that hopefully ensures that russia's northern reindeer will have caretakers for generations to come. in the autumn of the years. it's never too late to start over. extreme arrogant. when i think championship. or become a part. wealthy british style.

market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on our. welcome back this is all c let's move on now republican nominee me trami has taken a slight lead in the polls ahead of the second u.s. presidential debate previously romney's state has that he considers russia to be one of america's principal rivals but it seems that his business history that force to tobacco addiction that makes trading with anime ok and it struck him has a story. today as mitt romney views russia as america's number one geopolitical foe

we don't know what it is mr romney had on russia twenty years ago but we do know that back then he did his best to get russia. to smoke more so some twenty years ago he was a boston based consulting firm bain capital was helping tobacco titans to move forcefully into the new russian market the soviet union just collapsed russia was up for grabs according to the person who worked for romney in russia at the time someone named. hope i pronounce his name correctly romney was very excited about the smoking market in russia mr garside he reported to mitt romney directly about his efforts to promote smoking in the one nine hundred ninety s. tobacco market in russia skyrocketed which of course led to more smoking related deaths and candidate romney has apparently made his modest very modest contribution to that but obviously for him it was more about money than anything else just business even if it killed by the way mitt romney himself never smoked except for the one cigarette he said he had when he was very young he explained his attitude

to smoking saying it's a religious thing mr romney is a mormon and mormons have a strict health code but apparently believes his faith never stopped him from pushing cigarettes onto the nation he refers to as a pope in washington i'm going to check out. now bigger is not always better at least for american police the department of homeland security the field tests more of the ashes of battle drones from destruction to the legal limits of spying and u.s. citizen. it's coming up later but now the united arab emirates has accused one of the world's most influential islamist groups the muslim brotherhood of plotting to overthrow regional governments the country has called on gulf arab states to you nice to stop its rise in egypt why donates political life of a job they arrested around six to islamists they say alleging they belonged to the group and were conspiring to the shaikh but also on journalist eric margolis things these concerns show the state's paranoia. the muslim brotherhood's primary goals

have been expressed through welfare programs and it's the reason words continue aren't you larry it's never been very popular among muslims and mostly on the grass that's coming in the gulf it's now is coming from. the road. because of the good the very difficult position they want to be on the side of history of improvement in the region but they've been stuck supporting dictators traditionally historically their american government has stumbled and forward right now trying to figure out work to do and it's under the new obama under great attack by the republicans who are driving really good political issue of the fact the. region is not clear. iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki is on a visit to moscow to seal billions of dollars worth of arms deals with russia there's been no official statement on what exactly baghdad is buying but the

shopping list reportedly includes fighter jets helicopters and missile defense systems iraq says it needs the modern weaponry to combat terrorists and their mountains and desert. let's now have a look at some other international news stories in brief at least thirty civilians have allegedly been shot dead by nigerian troops in the northeast of the country the soldiers opened fire in the city of my degree while they remain targets of guerrilla attacks by extremists islam as. the killings and i made reports of soldiers harassing and torturing civilians in the region sparking fears the latest incident could be just the tip of the iceberg. un chief ban ki moon ass condemns the deadly bombings that rocks the ad force intelligence building in damascus killing dozens of people and al-qaeda linked opposition group claimed responsibility for a series of explosions that shook the syrian capital later on monday has been a sharp rise of rebel led terrorist attacks on seriously cities after forty people

were killed just a week ago in explosions in the northern hub of aleppo. u.s. police may soon employ this same drone technology which the army uses to attack targets abroad only the downsized version the department of homeland security has stressed that small unmanned aircraft to be used for surveillance as part of a public safety program and amy stepanov which from the electronic privacy information center says this may practically lived the legal limits of domestic spying. and there are no laws out there right now that protect privacy from the use of drones and as this technology gets more available the police will be able to do more and more with will be able to do more and more with it without needing a warrant so we're entering an age where everything that we do even possibly down the road in our own homes could be subject to unwarranted police surveillance so there are police departments that have expressed interest in having rubber bullets

having tear gas possibly having deadly weapons on the drones in the future they are able to target surveillance targets better too so if some they want to keep an eye on a suspected criminal or maybe even just somebody who may have gone to a protest they're able to do that much more efficiently. businesses next marina's him arena over to you thank you very much right now we're focusing on russia's energy minister who is in london right now meeting with international investors and that is as the country is seeking funds to develop as challenging pauses alexander novak has said over there that russia needs one trillion dollars worth of investment by twenty twenty into the energy sector and r.t. spoke exclusively to him and he explained to us that incentives that will help us for the auction. first of all we've created the sort of stimulating measures to boost the development of new world deposits and siberia secondly for the existence of those it's profitable under the current tax system with could be export takes by

five percent on top of that we will take steps to stimulate drilling of hard to reach oil reserves on the shelves. international markets will stop with the second hour of the trade and such and things have changed slightly it's now a mixed picture and we're seeing that before it's just not as much to reverse irving it also is there for us to positive we know that there are concerns that remain over the financial health of spain and greece and in general i had of the earnings of. course everyone is concerned so you bought those figures will show now moving on to the russian markets which have been tracking the losses overseas and was there nothing much has changed from previous hour almost half a percent in the red for both the arts yes and the my sex now oil prices are not helping but we'll get to that in a second now i want to talk about goldman sachs because we have an update on the ets megaphone situation because now governments access quits as an advisor to the company's three billion dollars in the public offering investment bankers

reportedly on the price of the plans of the company's key shareholder value for the smom of who wants to place his shares in an umbrella company menacing goldman sachs quitting as a blow to russia second biggest mall operator which is planning to sell twenty percent of its by the end of the year. and time for a quick review of the currencies the euro is still weak and then against the u.s. dollar slightly different picture for the ruble it's now again into both the greenback and the euro this hour now asian stocks this is the last hour here because investors are getting ready to go home there the nikkei already closed almost three percent in the red there and you can see with the high sign as one tonight gets it again we know that there are concerns over global growth and that's tracking the losses that we saw on the wall street as well moving on to oil which is dropping from a one we call i although this was seen as sort of change especially for brands and what we do know is that this is ahead of a report that is set to increase in the u.s.

which is there was a because crude. now that's all we have for business this hour we talk about greece next hour all right looking forward to it maria thank you very much and coming out also he talks to andy green bug from forbes magazine who signs that despite the u.s. whistle blowers the truth out of the cities on the right. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you

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this machine kills secrets is the title of a new book that chronicles the history and future of information leaks ranging from the pentagon papers to wiki leaks and beyond r.t. is now sitting down with the author andy greenberg who is also

a reporter for forbes magazine welcome andy as a pleasure in your book you introduce readers to the inside world of how activists cypherpunks and digital activists such as wiki leaks founder julian assange you came to the conclusion that in the twenty first century the world should grow used to more whistleblowers like bradley manning and more groups like wiki leaks why is that well at the julius anjan in two thousand and ten and it's you know the time it seemed to me that he was he sort of made it seem so easy to to leak these massive troves of secret documents but i i and i think the rest of the media didn't understand how this was possible where did this come from. some kind of just genius singularity or did it come out of some larger tradition or is it the technology that he used so i i went on this kind of you have a quest to trace the ideas behind wiki leaks and then just you know once

a sort of fell into the tradition that a song comes out of which is to say for punks a group that's been around since the mid ninety's who have always dreamed of using encryption to to take power from the government and give it to individuals and i conceded that he was actually using technologies that are freely available that have been developing for decades and when you see that you have to wonder who is going to use those technologies next it's not if this isn't all just about julia songe and it's actually a movement that's been developing for decades then it seems inevitable that it's going to keep evolving and then we're going to have another wiki leaks another meaning and maybe another songe you traveled around the world to. understand the ins and outs of the hacking community you were tracking cypherpunks and you also spoke to members of other groups such as anonymous paranoia and open leaks well in two thousand and ten actually before i even spoke with a songe there was a kind of mutiny.